Chapter 57: Elevator
Three days later, Lord Warung’s army entered Marquis Emassache’s fief, which was under the direct control of the Emperor.
Meanwhile the capital was in chaos. Rumours of the approaching rebel army had caused some of the citizens to flee from the capital.
A large number of mercenaries were assembled in the capital and security deteriorated rapidly. Supplies were forcibly collected from many stores to make up for the shortage of food. Of course, this was all ordered by the Chancellor and the Chief of the Ministry of Ceremonies.
The citizens in the capital had horrible opinions about these two. Thank you for being villains.
Also, another reason for the shortage of food for the troops was because the Gotilova tribe had brought a large amount of food even though they were in debt.
To be more precise, the Gotilova’s blatantly brought all the food they could in a short time period while Lord Warung took his time to accumulate rations. It was as if they were saying, “We’re going to war now”. As a result, it was a good cover to conceal Lord Warung’s movements and the Chancellor and the Chief of the Ministry of Ceremonies didn’t detect Lord Warung’s movements until the rebellion.
And the Chancellor who took this as a sign of Gotilova’s rebelling, left most of his troops in his fief.
… Well, he wasn’t wrong.
Incidentally, I hadn’t instructed the Gotilova’s to do this.